14 October 2013

Featured Writer: Miyoko Azuma - Abused Disbelief

Sixty-four days and still loving you..
How can that be?
You’ve lied every time
You said you loved me.
“If I should leave, you’ll never see me again”
Words you once said.
Now you stick around
Just to play with my head.
Laughing, it’s so funny…
What a joke you must feel,
I wish you all the luck finding
Another, who’s real.
I can’t fix things now,
I’m already gone.
Like you said, I’m nineteen
Guess I’ve got to get on.
I’m hurt and lonely
Can’t hide my tears.
I’ll remember your scars
For so many years.
My first night completely alone,
I’d rather not think.
I keep looking down the street,
Just to take a peek.
You’re there all the time
With your thugged out friends
You never did come home,
Until your street day met its end.
You’d start to complain,
When I’d get upset.
Did you ever think of how
My day was spent?
I come home from work
Just to cook and clean
When you didn’t show for dinner
You’d wonder why I was mean.
I enslaved every day
I did it for what?
You only come home to
Play games & not give a fuck.
Now I’m hurt and sad
While you have fun, don’t feel bad
I’m a hell of a woman
I deserve a lot better
Rainy days just pass by
I need sunny weather.
In writing this poem,
I’ve concluded a lot.
Either love me or leave me
I’m worth the thought.

Miyoko Azuma
Written 7 September 1996


Christian Haiku

Purpose
Faith and hope
Lead a purpose driven life
Jesus is Lord
Amen


Kahala Lei
Blood Money Poets

copyright 2011

Second Glance

A SURFACE IS JUST THAT
BUT WHAT LIES BENEATH?
WHEN YOU ONLY SEE THE WATER
HOW DO YOU JUDGE CORAL REEF?
IF YOU'VE READ THE TITLE,
HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK?
WHAT APPEARS TO BE TRUE
MIGHT NOT BE WHAT IT LOOKS
SO WHEN YOU SEE ME
SEE ME FOR ME AND
GIVE ME A CHANCE
I'M WORTH A LOT MORE
THAN THAT THING IN MY PANTS
BEFORE YOU DISCOUNT ME AS A PERSON
TAKE A SECOND GLANCE.


JENNIFER CHRUPALYK

CIRCA 1999